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August 26, 2016
"A whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace"
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started… Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, not the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case. — Robert Farrar Capon
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Posted by: Dennis Myers ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 26, 2016 6:29 PM
They were lucky they could remember where they found the stuff.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 27, 2016 4:24 AM
Also note that a few other Western brands that are considered
laid-back in the West might tackle a more formal environment in China.
Posted by: Judi at January 17, 2017 9:00 PM